2010: Odyssey Two Quotes.

1. "What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

2. "It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

3. "After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

4. "All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

5. "Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

6. "Humor was the enemy of desire."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

7. "And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

8. "Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

9. "Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

10. "Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson."
- Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

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